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To: John Mansfield who wrote (1056)2/11/1998 11:15:00 AM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9818
 
1998 - Blow Off to a'29 Style Crash?

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Found on the POGF thread; thanks to Mark Bartlett. Something to keep in mind.

John

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1998 - Blow Off to a'29 Style Crash?

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We are at a critical turning point over the next week or two. I believe there is a good chance the market will continue up through April, Zippergate notwithstanding. As the chart below shows, the market continues to run up in a fashion having an uncanny parallel to 1929. Look at the blue line for a moment. You'll see there is a gap. On the left is actual numbers. To the right of the gap is where the market will go if we blow off in the same manner as '29-30. This blow off (history repeating closely) would be a 24% run up from the 7600 area we just revisited. That's the peak of the blue line. Dow 9500.

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Predictions: (OK, sure, what the hell...)

If we replay the curves of 1920-1934 closely, the target levels are: Peak in mid April, Low around 5718 week ending June 3. Recovery to 7351 week ending 11/16/98, closing the year at 6450. 1999's first week would close at 6054, and inspite of a few rally attempts, the relentless whipping of the early '30's would be replayed. One more point: If we are replaying closely at the end of June, and we've had a massive run up and crash, then the implication is that the Year 2000 roll over will be ugly enough to have a negative impact on folks. Triggers to watch in April: SEC publication of Y2K impacts by major companies, Fed action to raise, not lower interest rates, in reaction to the 9% annual rise in aggregate money supplies, such as M3 and broader measures, and last, but not least, about then Ken Starr may actually do something. As the old Chinese curse goes, "May you live in interesting times...".

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To: John Mansfield who wrote (1056)2/17/1998 10:32:00 AM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9818
 
IT aspects of EMU in Germany (not!) on TV discussion

From the Euro discussion listserver.

John

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>From: POP3 Mail[SMTP:michael.walsh@pohjolagroup.com]
>Sent: Monday, February 16, 1998 6:39 AM
>To: euro2002-discuss-digest@euro2002.com
>Subject: Germans on Euro

Because of the 155 German Professors who wrote a letter to the FAZ and the Financial Times asking for
postponement of the Euro, two serious German TV discussion programs dealt with this theme on Sunday (15th Feb)
Presse Club (ARD - repeated later on Deutschewelle) with 5 journalists 2D, I, GB and F) spent 45 minutes
on this theme without once mentioning IT.

19:10 (ZDF - sent live on Sat-3) with 5 "experts" (The German behind the letter; one of the 2 German journalists
from the previous program - a pro delay man; a German SDP politician; an talian economic journalist and the
Chief Economist of the Deutsche Bank) had 50 minutes available. After 40 minutes there was the one and only
(very brief) mention of IT. They were discussing whether Euro would
cause job losses and the Deutsche Bank=20
man used the fact that IT was booming (hat Hoch Konjunktur) as one of is arguments that it wouldn't.

That in a total of 1 hour 35 minutes was it.

It seems that the message that it's risky for IT reasons to have Euro
changes at the same time(ish) as Year2000
changes hasn't reached the non-IT "informed" people at all.

Mike Walsh
Helsinki, Finland